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Pilot Butte, a small Saskatchewan community just outside Regina, is receiving a federal investment to upgrade its wastewater treatment and to improve storm water management systems. The provincial government is also chipping in some funds.

London, Niagara, York Region and Thunder Bay are among the communities to receive federal funding under the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund (CWWF) for projects ranging from water treatment, stormwater management and wastewater operations. The announcements were made on May 24.

An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe that businesses “should pay the full cost of delivering and treating the water they use,” according to the most recent results form the RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Survey.